Animated version makes the changes over time very apparent, particularly in the most recent months

Tells a simple story clearly without any instructions needed

Tooltips provide useful additional information

Light borders around the states separates them well without being distracting

Creating separate boxes for Rhode Island, Delaware and Washington D.C. helps to keep them from getting lost

Recommended Enhancements:

Make the animation faster by default; this view actually works better when I drag it myself rather than playing it because the play is too slow

Filled maps can sometimes be tough to see the overall patterns because the larger states will always outweigh the smaller states when viewed this way; it'd be interesting to see this as a dot plot with the dots sized by population

Normally I like to place my filters on the right, but in this viz placing them on the left works better because that is the starting place.

Great color choices!

Nice title with a cute little paw print in the background for added fun

Excellent use of space by placing the text on the bars

Interactions are fast and provide useful additional information

Bars re-sort automatically after the filters are changed

Clean fonts

Recommended Enhancements:

A pet peeve of mine is not including a space before and after the "-" after the dog breed on the bar chart. Yes, this is super nitpicky.

Remove the axis on the bar chart. It's not needed since the values are already inside the bars.

I would like to see how the bars look if they weren't so tightly packed. The standard spacing between bars is 1/2 the width of the bars themselves, but I think what Jewel has done here works well with the rest of the viz.